The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 43
In a moment the devils began to arrive singly or in pairs; and at last came the old devil--the very one who had played the trick on Good.
Who acts: devils, one · What happens: begin, arrive, come, play · To what, where: old devil, last, trick, Good
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (devils, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 began | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 devils | det |
| 5 | devils | devil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 began | nsubj |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 arrive | mark |
| 8 | arrive | arrive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 began | xcomp |
| 9 | singly | singly | ADV | _ | 8 arrive | advmod |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 pairs | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 pairs | case |
| 12 | pairs | pair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 singly | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 last | case |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 came | obl |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 began | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 devil | det |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 devil | amod |
| 20 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obj |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 one | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 one | det |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 one | advmod |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 devil | appos |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 played | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 played | aux |
| 27 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 one | acl:relcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 trick | det |
| 29 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 played | obj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 Good | case |
| 31 | Good | Good | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 played | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the devils | moment | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | arrive | to-infinitive | the devils not said here | singly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the devils not said here | the old devil | last | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location devil=Theme | |||
| 4 | play | past · perfect | the one | the trick | Good | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Project Gutenberg book 77804 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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